Band Refuses To Sell Their Album

7 February 2010 5 Comments

Last year, MusicReview posted an article on music piracy, which generated much debate amongst our readers.
One of the biggest contributors to the heated discussion was Jared from Brandt Morain, who protested vehemently against piracy.

In the latest twist of this seemingly never-ending piracy debacle, Brandt Morain have decided to halt the sale of their album, Brandt Morain Volume 1, to the general public until the music piracy problem is solved.

The following message was posted on their official website:

Due to uncontrolled music piracy, Brandt Morain Volume One will no longer be sold to the general public. We refuse to cater to thieves and criminals. When the worldwide piracy problem is solved, then we will begin sales once again.

What are your thoughts on this matter? Do you agree with what Brandt Morain are doing? Let us know.

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Simon said:

It’s already “out there”. They won’t get any money from the people who DID want to buy their album… Fail?

# 7 February 2010 at 5:07 pm

NielDLR said:

This is just silly. Good luck on not selling any more albums. Which makes this even more sad is, that apparently the album is supposedly “good” and they’re just shooting themselves in the foot from further sales. This “campaign” will achieve nothing, perhaps just a few laughs.

# 7 February 2010 at 5:20 pm

Joe said:

This is a ridiculous notion. There is no such thing as piracy when it comes to music. You are privileged that I listen to you as much as I’m privileged to be able to listen to you. If I really enjoy your music I will feel compelled to visit your website and make a donation or buy merchandise. I will go to your gigs and concerts and tell all my friends how cool you are. Your album or mp3’s/flac’s are disposable and essentially advertisement for the product which is you. Get with the program!

# 16 February 2010 at 2:26 pm

Jared Brandt said:

Fail, Silly, Ridiculous?? These are the claims against our anti-piracy stance.

According to the most recent IFPI reports, 95% of all digital goods are pirated, not purchased.
This is consistent with our marketing data.

This means that anyone selling digital products–Music/Movies/Software/Books/etc
is operating a business with effectively a 95% Income Tax.

Waiting for a better market doesn’t seem silly or ridiculous to Brandt Morain.

-Jared

# 20 February 2010 at 12:31 am

NielDLR said:

Ah, but Joe, the law of large numbers allows you to circumvent that horrible figure. Having your product digitally available opens it up to 1,733,993,741 people (according to http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm)

And having a digital product allows you to have very low overhead costs: no cd manufacturing, no printing, ridiculous profit markups etc. Therefore for each mp3 you sell you get more bang for your buck. It’s actually ridiculous how, for instance iTunes charges $0.99 for a song. It’s actually way overpriced: therefore you can get more money, by creating your own digital store selling it at the same price. I’m going to use the overused Radiohead example again: http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/radiohead_make_10_million_from_in_rainbows.html

But alas, I’m not here to persuade you, it seems you already made up your mind. Good luck trying to sell CDs or the lack thereof.

# 23 February 2010 at 8:18 pm